Duct Tape
Overview
An introduction to the history, properties, safe use, and creative applications of duct tape. It combines practical skills, crafting, problem-solving, teamwork, and spiritual lessons using the idea of duct tape’s “stickiness.”
Requirements
1. List or explain the components of duct tape.
2. Give a 3-5 minute report or create a timeline about the history and development of duct tape.
3. Name three uses of duct tape.
4. List at least three ways that duct tape is used in a professional setting.
5. Outline duct tape safety rules as they relate to general duct tape usage, usage recreationally among young people, and within a craft setting.
6. Demonstrate the ability to tear pieces of duct tape, by hand, in the following lengths without the aid of a knife, scissors, or any other cutting instrument. The tape must not get tangled up or wrinkled.
- a. 15 cm (6 inches)
- b. 60 cm (2 feet)
- c. 150 cm (5 feet)
7. Create a toolkit with the basic items needed for duct tape crafts, including at least three colors/designs of duct tape, cutting mat, scissors, utility knife, tools for residue removal. Demonstrate the ability to use each tool.
8. Create five items from duct tape, such as:
- a. Wallet or purse
- b. Basket or tote
- c. A wearable piece of clothing
- d. Holiday decorations
- e. Christmas wrapping or bows
- f. Simple flower arrangement
- g. Toy
- h. Items of your choice
9. Build a boat that will float a 2kg (5lb) sack of flour for five minutes while preventing the flour from getting wet. You may use other materials to create a frame, but the majority of the hull should be made from duct tape.
10. Complete the following spiritual lessons on the “stickiness” of duct tape.
- a. Read Daniel, chapter 3, and discuss how duct tape can apply to God and the Hebrews in the story.
- b. Memorize and recite Proverbs 18:24 and explain how duct tape applies to this verse.
- c. Discuss in a group how “sin” can stick to you.
- d. Memorize and recite James 4:7 and share your ideas on how sin can get unstuck in our lives.
Answer key & resources
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